Cité des Arts will be having auditions for the play Buried Child June 22 from 5pm-7pm, and June 23 Noon to 3pm. Performances will be August 24-26 & August 31-Sept. 2, at Cité. Cooper Helm is directing.
In his 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning family drama, Buried Child, Sam Shepard takes a macabre look at one American Midwestern family with a very dark secret. When Vince brings his girlfriend, Shelly, home to meet his family, she is at first charmed by the "normal" looking farm house which she compares to a "Norman Rockwell cover or something"--that's before she actually meets his crazy family--his ranting, alcoholic grandparents (Dodge and Halie) and their two sons: Tilden, a hulking semi-idiot, and Bradley, who has lost one leg to a chain saw. Strangely, no one seems to remember Vince at first, and they treat him as an intruder. Eventually, however, they seem to accept him as a part of their violently dysfunctional family.
Character Breakdown:
Dodge: in his seventies
Halie: his wife, Mid-sixties
Tilden: their oldest son, forties
Bradley: their next oldest son, an amputee, forties
Vince: Tilden's son, twenties
Shelly: Vince's girlfriend, twenties
Father Dewis: a Protestant minister, age unknown
There are two boxes of scripts in the Cité des Arts office. Anyone who wants to read the play can borrow a script. Please note the $3 holding fee for the scripts.
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